Detroit Titans seek 18th straight home win against Valparaiso

One streak ended, but another is intact for the Detroit Titans basketball team.

Coach Ray McCallum's team plays Valparaiso at Calihan Hall on Thursday night. The 7 p.m. game that will be televised by ESPNU is a rematch of the 2012 Horizon League tournament championship game that was won by U-D and sent the Titans to the NCAA tournament.

Detroit (3-1, 11-6) has won 17 consecutive games at Calihan Hall, including nine this season.

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The Titans need win No. 18 in a row to get back on track in the Horizon League.

Cleveland State ended the Titans' five-game winning streak, and handed U-D its first conference defeat, with a 74-62 victory last Saturday.

Ray McCallum Jr. (Birmingham Detroit Country Day) led the Titans with 22 points against the Vikings. Nick Minnerath posted his first double-double of the season with 16 points and 11 rebounds.

Valparaiso (3-1, 13-5), the last visiting team to win at Calihan Hall, leads the series with Detroit 11-8. The Crusaders won both regular-season meetings last year before the Titans won the conference-tournament finale at Valpo.

Forward Ryan Broekhoff and the Crusaders are hot. Broekhoff, a 6-foot-7 senior, made seven 3-point field goals and finished with 26 points and 10 rebounds Saturday in a 76-52 win over Milwaukee, Valparaiso's sixth win in seven games.

Broekhoff was named the Horizon League Player of the Week for the third time this season after leading Valpo to a pair of road victories last week. He had double-doubles in both contests.

Detroit's last loss at home came on Jan. 6, 2012, against Valparaiso, 73-71.